[Gllug] Maybe a BBC iPlayer for Linux after all

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Thu Jul 26 10:12:26 UTC 2007


On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 11:08:48AM +0100, Pete Stean wrote:
> The opensource video codec that the BBC have produced is called "dirac" but
> of course someone needs to adopt and use it if it's to become popular -
> which even they haven't done yet... they're still using crummy .rm streams
> as we all know

The last time that I looked it wasn't 'mature'. Is it any better ?
If so we would get it into the popular distros and lobby Apple to
bundle it with OSX.

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